[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WOMEN AND GIRLS, HEALTH, SOCIAL,ECONOMIC& POLICTICAL DEVELOPMENT:
Some of the key interventions undertaken include:
- Sensitizing women on their rights particularly on the issues of inheritance and properly rights. This is highly supported by the New Constitution and international legislations.
- Promoting Sexual health of young people and girls including intensifying reproductive health rights awareness, sexuality education and addressing child and early marriage
- Sensitizing the communities on Child Rights and child protection related legislations.
- Creating awareness to the community on Gender Based Violence (GBV) including sexual violence and female genital mutilation and strengthening community structures for girls and women protection
- Making referrals for advanced Health care and legal redress to women who have experienced one form of GVC or the other.
- Providing psychosocial support services including counseling to women who are victims of one form of GBV or the other.
- Supporting community structures for child protection and enhancing advocacy on the same.
- Linking girls with safe houses to protect them from FGM.
- Enhancing the capacity of the law enforcers particularly on the new legislations and the constitution for protection of women and girls
- Supporting Quality Basic Education Initiatives including quality Early Learning.
- Supporting Women Social Economic Empowerment initiatives
- Supporting initiatives to promote women and other marginalized populations’ involvement in governance and political leadership
- Addressing gender issues including Gender in education
- Capacity development for Child Rights Actors to monitor the implementation of the new constitution on child rights
- Supporting and participating in Counties’ and National Child rights Networks
- Awareness creation and advocacy for reproductive health rights
- Provision of sanitary towels and supporting trainings for girls to make the same for sustainability.
- Scholarships support to enable vulnerable children access at least basic education.
- Advocacy and strengthening social structures for protection of vulnerable children and girls.
- Linking up marginalized groups for relevant support from appropriate organizations and institutions.
- Advocacy and support for Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programme’s initiatives that promote access, equity, quality and successful transitions to Primary schools and other levels of education.
- Advocacy and support for Basic Quality Education reforms in line with the new constitution to ensure accessibility, retention, equity and infrastructural development.
- B. Youth Socio- Economic Empowerment:
Facilitating Capacity and economic development of youth groups on:
- Leadership and Governance:
- Devolution, Social accountability and social audits
- Entrepreneurship and wealth creation
- Business planning and Management
- Agriculture, Agribusineses& livelihoods
- Peace building and conflicts prevention
- Advocacy and policy influencing
- Reproductive Health Rights and HIV Aids
- Resource mobilization
- C. Peace Building, Conflicts prevention and Reconciliation:
- Community trainings on peace and conflicts resolutions
- Training youths and TOTS in peace building, Leadership and reconciliation.
- Involvement of Women in Peace building and conflicts management.
- Ability to identify early warning signs for violence.
- Facilitating community peace and reconciliation dialogues.
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